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OTTAWA Alex DeBrincat Jersey , Ontario (AP) — Getting a win against the St. Louis Blues was nice for the Ottawa Senators and their fans. Seeing two players who could be key to their future was better.Anders Nilsson stopped 34 shots for his second shutout of the season as the Senators beat the Blues 2-0 on Thursday night. Christian Wolanin and Chris Tierney scored to help Ottawa snap a three-game losing streak. The shutout was Nilsson’s sixth of his career.Defenseman Erik Brannstrom and forward Max Veronneau made their NHL debuts for the rebuilding Senators.“It was a night where the kids were the story and I liked both of them tremendously,” Senators coach Marc Crawford said. “Veronneau getting the amount of shots he did is good. He’s got good speed and a good sense to get open. Brannstrom is as advertised. That kid has poise.“Two excellent prospects for us and that’s nice that our fans are getting to see a little bit what the future has in store.”Veronneau, 23, was born and raised in Ottawa and played three years of junior hockey in the city with Gloucester before embarking on his four-year collegiate career at Princeton. He signed a two-year entry level contract with the Senators on Tuesday after the Tigers were eliminated from the NCAA playoffs and his first skate with the NHL team was on Wednesday.“It was a phenomenal experience, especially sharing it with Erik and it was that much better because the team won, too. The post-game atmosphere was that much better,” said Veronneau, who estimated he had about 30 friends and family in attendance.“The first period I was pretty nervous Cam Atkinson Jersey Kids , but the second period was so much better,”Brannstrom, who was playing with the Senators’ AHL affiliate in Belleville, Ontario, was an emergency call-up due to injuries on the Ottawa blue line. The 19-year old Swede, who was the 15th overall pick by Vegas in 2017, was dealt to the Senators in the trade that sent Mark Stone to the Golden Knights at the deadline.“It was really exciting when I got the call. I went to the practice in Belleville today and they told me I was going up, so drove up here and it was really fun Womens Josh Anderson Jersey ,” Brannstrom said.The two rookies teamed up on a couple occasions to produce scoring opportunities, including midway through the second period when Brannstrom set up Veronneau for a good chance. Veronneau had four shots on goal in the second period.“I wish I had scored on one of those but it was pretty exciting to get some shots and I had some chances,” he said.Jake Allen made 19 saves in the loss for the Blues.“We need to have a 60-minute effort and it doesn’t matter who we’re playing right now — teams that are in the playoffs or out. Everyone is playing for something and we let this one slip,” Allen said.The Senators opened the scoring with 6:33 left in the second when Wolanin took a cross-ice pass from Mikkel Boedker. Wolanin had an empty net to shoot at as Allen and the rest of the Blues were focusing on Boedker.Tierney scored into an empty net with 57 seconds to play.NOTES: Colin White, Mark Borowiecki and Christian Jaros were scratches for the Senators, while Joel Edmundson, Sammy Blais, Jordan Kyrou and Vladimir Tarasenko were scratches for the Blues. … Blues F Ryan O’Reilly bought 35 tickets for the First Nation Elite Bantam AAA hockey team and their parents after hearing how the team was subjected to racist taunts at a tournament in Quebec City last year.UP NEXTBlues: At Pittsburgh on Saturday.Senators: Host Toronto on Saturday night. ST. PAUL — Put away those suitcases. Forget those late-night flights across western Canada. And shelve those late-morning breakfasts at hotel restaurants.The Minnesota Wild are back home Adam Henrique Jersey , and not a minute too soon after finishing a successful 5-2-0 road trip that lasted two weeks. Tuesday night’s visit from the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals is their first game at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. since October 27. It also starts a stretch of six home games in seven contests.More Wild coveragePhotos of the Week: 12/30/18 – 1/5/19Wild Breakaway: Wild start slow, finish fast in beating OttawaSpurgeon scores twice, Wild beat Senators 4-3WATCH: Wild’s Spurgeon scores pair of goals vs. OttawaSt. Cloud State’s Ryan Poehling shines at World Junior Championship“We showed a lot this trip and we’re looking forward to being home for a little bit,” defenseman Nick Seeler said Sunday after a 3-2 win in St. Louis.How long was Minnesota’s journey? It started before Halloween and ended 15 days after they left. It stopped twice in St. Louis for wins over the struggling Blues, including the finale, which saw the Wild (11-4-2) overcome a sluggish start and ride the great work of goalie Devan Dubnyk to two more points.Dubnyk came up with 29 saves, including a highlight video stop in the last minute on Alexander Steen’s wrist shot that seemed ticketed for the upper right corner and a 3-3 tie. He helped bring Minnesota within two points of Nashville for first place in the Central Division and for the NHL’s best record.Wild coach Bruce Boudreau isn’t discounting this trip’s potential impact on the season’s remaining 65 games.“It’s still November Womens Andrew Cogliano Jersey , but the farther you can get above .500, because everybody goes through something whether it’s injuries, whether it’s a downward part of the schedule that makes it tough for you, it happens,” Boudreau said.“To get that little cushion is really important. It’s something we never had last year because we started out very mediocre, so we grinded and grinded. And the year before, we had a good cushion when we had a bad month of March and it worked out for us. That’s what you want to do.”One of Boudreau’s old teams hasn’t been able to do that just yet. Washington (7-6-3) has played at times as though it’s still celebrating June’s Stanley Cup Finals win in Las Vegas, its first in franchise history. The Capitals are sixth in the Metropolitan Division after a brutal 4-1 loss Sunday to visiting Arizona.Washington’s penalty killing is killing it. After allowing the Coyotes two man-advantage markers Brandon Montour Jersey Kids , the Capitals are 29th in the league on the PK. Goalie Braden Holtby has logged an uncharacteristic .901 save percentage and 3.24 goals-against average through 13 games, numbers that would be the worst of his career if they hold up.“Sometimes, you just try a little bit too hard,” Holtby said of the PK. “We’re just struggling with that. The biggest thing is not get frustrated, expect more out of ourselves.”The usual suspects are holding up their end of the bargain offensively under first-year coach Todd Reirden. Alex Ovechkin is on a 60-goal pace and Evgeny Kuznetsov would finish with more than 100 points if he keeps scoring at his present clip.